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Dozens of villagers in eastern India beat to death five women Saturday, accusing them of practicing witchcraft and blaming them for a series of misfortunes in the village, police said. Residents of Kinjia village in Jharkhand state dragged the women out of their homes and beat them with sticks and iron rods, said Arun Kumar Singh, a deputy inspector-general of police in Ranchi, Jharkhand's capital. The attackers blamed the women for several accidents and misfortunes suffered by villagers, including the death of an infant in Kinjia earlier in the week, Singh said.
Superstitious beliefs persist in many parts of India and have been behind similar attacks on women in Jharkhand. From 2000 to 2012, around 2,100 people, mostly women, were killed in India on suspicion of practicing witchcraft, according to the National Crime Records Bureau.
originally posted by: rhynouk
You know, most if not all of us on ATS live in developed countries that have certain rules we have to endure to live there. Other countries have these rules as well but are totally different to ours.
Being beaten to death because they think you're a witch is something some countries still do. They live by different standards to us. To us it's shocking and barbaric but to them it's just what they do and they don't see anything wrong with it.
It is a terrible practice though.
Police have arrested around 50 people involved in the attack, Singh said. A large number of police officers have been deployed in the village to prevent any outbreak of violence. Jharkhand's top elected official, Chief Minister Raghubar Das, condemned the incident. "In the age of knowledge, this incident is sorrowful. Society should ponder over it," he said in a statement
originally posted by: boymonkey74
a reply to: ketsuko
Well once upon a time it was christians doing this.
Barbaric then barbaric now.
originally posted by: boymonkey74
a reply to: ketsuko
Well once upon a time it was christians doing this.
Barbaric then barbaric now.
originally posted by: boymonkey74
a reply to: ketsuko
Well once upon a time it was christians doing this.
Barbaric then barbaric now.